You may want xpath.

name/text()
name/last

will return 'Richard' and Pierson consecutively. Concatenation, you may
simply want a & b syntax in VB or VBScript. Also there is a concat()
function in XSLT.

"Microsoft News" <gustavorios@h...> wrote in message
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> Hello all!
>
> I have a simple question I can't figure it out how to do it.
> Here is a portion of my xml
>
> <name>
>            Richard
>                      <last>Pierson</last>
> </name>
>
> I am trying to use something like this using msxml to get just the first
> name:
>
> Set objNodeList = xml.getElementsByTagName("name")
>       First_Name = objNodeList.Item(0).text
>
>
> Now according to documentation  text attribute will concatenate all "name"
> descendant and return a single string concatenated.
> First: How can I get just the first portion of <name> ?  In my case
> "Richard"
> Second:  If I want to get  "Richard Pierson" how do I put the space
between
> concatenations?
>
> Thanks for your help?
>
> Gus.
>
>